Man living at the time of Divided Monarchy
Raham was the son of Shema and the father or founder of Jorkeam, from the tribe of Judah.
🗺 Places mentioned alongside Raham on the map →
Raham is mentioned briefly in the genealogy of the tribe of Judah (1Ch.2.44). He was the son of Shema and the father or founder of Jorkeam. No additional information is provided about Raham in the Bible. His mention in the genealogy serves to trace the lineage of certain families within the tribe of Judah.
More background: search Wikipedia ↗
Merciful, one of the descendants of Caleb, the son of Hezron (1 Chr. 2:44).
(belly). In the genealogy of the descendants of Caleb the son of Hezron, (1 Chronicles 2:44) Raham is described as the son of Shema and father of Jorkoam.
Easton (1897), Smith (1863), Hitchcock (1869), Hastings (1898) and Schaff are in the public domain. Parsed text: neuu-org/bible-dictionary-dataset (CC BY 4.0). Headwords and whitespace normalised for this site.
1 verse in 1 book · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H7357
Shema was the father of Raham the father of Jorkeam, and Rekem was the father of Shammai.
Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.